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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Closed syllable
Oral Language
Standardized test
Age equivalent
VC
2. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tilde
Expressive language
Consonant
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
3. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Adolf Kusmaul
WRAT
Syllable
4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Quadrigraph
Accuracy
Anglo Saxon
Sound Symbol Association
5. Multisensory Structured Language
Profile
Open Syllable
MSL
Social language
6. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Tactile
Quadrigraph
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
7. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Whole Language
Grade equivalents
Components of Reading Instruction
8. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Age equivalent
Greek layer of language
Phoneme
9. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Phonological Awareness
Norm-referenced tests
RTI
10. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Phonics
Multisensory
Texas Education Code 38.003
Reading Comprehension Support
11. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Visual Learners
Joe Torgesen
Reading Comprehension Support
Synthetic Instruction
12. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Standard deviation
Anglo Saxon
Six basic types of syllables
13. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Combination
Composite Score
Norm-referenced tests
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Chall's Stage 5
Consonant Digraph
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Whole Language
15. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Top-down Reading Approach
Vowel
Analytic
Direct Instruction
16. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Battery
Semantics
Syntax
Anglo Saxon
17. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Quadrigraph
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Digraph
18. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Multisensory
Pre-English
[-'le
19. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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20. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Profile
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Consonant Digraph
21. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Joe Torgesen
Mastery level
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Closed Syllable
22. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Sight Words
Receptive language
Multisensory
23. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Visual Processing
Receptive language
IMSLEC
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
24. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Comprehension
Analytic
Chall's Stage 1
25. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
Auditory Processing
Dyslexia
Accommodation
Affix
26. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Auditory Learners
Grapheme
Composite Score
Percentile
27. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Base Word
Letter naming Chart
Semantics
Joe Torgesen
28. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Cognition
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Academic Achievement Tests
Consonant Digraph
29. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Six basic types of syllables
Greek layer of language
Mathew Effect
Criterion referenced tests
30. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Rate
Middle English
Diphthong
Comprehension
31. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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32. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Phonology
Mastery level
Tactile
Kinesthetic
33. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
GORT
Vowel Digraph
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
34. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 1
Greek layer of language
Percentile
35. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Components of Reading Instruction
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Anna Gillingham
36. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Greek layer of language
Accuracy
Standard score
Consonant Digraph
37. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Quadrigraph
James Hinshelwood
CTOPP
Simultaneous teaching
38. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Consonant
Visual Learners
Anglo Saxon
Adolf Kusmaul
39. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Auditory Processing
WIATII
Chall's Stage 2
Standardized test
40. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Derivative
Sound Symbol Association
Composite Score
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
41. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Chall's Stage 5
Mathew Effect
Morphology
Frank Smith
42. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Mathew Effect
Letter naming Chart
MSLE
Pre-English
43. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
VV
VAKT
Chall's Stage 5
Visual Processing
44. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Funding
Kinesthetic
Adolf Kusmaul
45. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Diphthong
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
James Hinshelwood
Phonemic/ decodable words
46. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Pre-English
ESL
Quadrigraph
47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Battery
Digraph
The Norman Conquest
Quadrigraph
48. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Percentile/ percentile rank
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Stage 1
Accommodation
49. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Pre-English
Curriculum referenced tests
V >
Percentile/ percentile rank
50. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Fluency
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Vowel Digraph
Linguistic Method